Staff+ engineering is a critical role in any high-performing engineering organization. But what does it take to get promoted or get hired into a staff role? What does it take to keep it? Join us for a panel discussion with experienced Staff+ engineers who will share their insights.
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Erin Doyle
Founding Engineer @Quotient and Instructor @Egghead, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering
Erin Doyle is a Founding Engineer at Quotient. For the last 20+ years prior she’s been working across many domains including Full Stack Development in web and mobile as well as Platform Engineering. She’s also an instructor for Egghead.io and given talks and workshops focusing on building the best and most accessible experiences for users and engineers.
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Adam Schirmacher
Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto
Adam is currently a Staff Engineer @Gusto whose code moves $50B+ per year. He was formerly a director at Gusto who managed Staff Engineers. He focuses on being supportive yet demanding - ensuring that not only are current challenges handled, but that his organization is ready to tackle the next set of challenges too.
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Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box
Joy is a Principal Software Engineer at Split by Harness, leading our backend team from a technical perspective. Prior to Harness, she worked at Box. At both Harness and Box, she has led efforts around splitting monoliths into microservices, revamping authentication and authorization frameworks, creating REST API standards, audit logging and more. In addition to designing software and writing code, she also maintains a blog: https://medium.com/@jkebertz. In her free time, she does a lot of traveling, reading, and running ridiculously long distances (mostly on trails).
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Caleb Hyde
Site Reliability Engineer @Expel
Caleb is a Systems Engineer by education, software developer by vocation, and hobby roboticist. Their work focuses on Site Reliability and Data Engineering.